Online Tools: A Round Up & Silly Fun

So for the past few posts we have been sharing a series of great online tools to help you plan. Here is a round-up of those posts and to finish up, some silly online tools: fun!

Inspiration Board Generators
Play online on your lunch hour! Use the pictures on theses sites, from gowns to cakes, jewelry and shoes. Make an inspiration board for your wedding quickly and easily.

Wedding Widgets
Have a wedding blog you want to dress up a bit? Choose from many wedding weddings. Count down the days until your wedding, cakes, gowns, celebrity wedding news and polls. Add our widget up as well so you know what great stuff we are blogging about to make your online planning easier!

Wedding Color Generators
HELP! Have a picture you have simply fallen in love with? Want to copy that color scheme? Upload it and get the color palate and the color codes to streamline that style.

Wedding Mapper
DIY or choose a professional. Make maps to include in your wedding invitation and/or to give out after the ceremony so guests can make it to the reception and not miss a moment of fun.

Miss. Now Mrs.
After the wedding, a fantastic service for changing your name with everyone! Makes a great gift too!

Wedding Wire
Easily becoming a must for planning your wedding.

EZ Wedding Planner
An easy and simple resource for planning your wedding. The email alert telling you what's on your schedule that you can have emailed to yourself, or anyone you choose is a great help!

Wish Pot
A great resource with easy sign up, community and the ability to add to your wish list from any store online!

My Invitation Link
Want to go comppletely gree? How about an online invitation? Give it a shot! Handmake a few invitations for those on your guestlist who are not so savvy and save money! Now *that* is savvy!

Get Married - Online Chats
Over at GetMarried.Com you can log on and chat with the leaders in the wedding industry. Get advice from the professionals!

Here are some other tools you may find useful or just silly & fun!

Horoscope Compatibility

David's Bridal - Dress Your Wedding

iVilliage - Are You a Bridezilla

Online Flower Guide

Bliss - Wedding Floral Generator

Brides.Com - Flower Finder

Happy planning!
~w.s.

Online Tools: Wedding Mapper

Annother great online tool for planning a wedding online is Wedding Mapper.
This site is beyond excellent. Having your wedding in a large city? Having out of town guests? Then wedding mapper is the way to go. Include a map in your wedding invitation or make it available online. Either way, providing a map is part of caring for your guests.


In addition to mapping your wedding sites wedding mapper offers more services. You can explore wedding mapper and gain inspiration by browsing their wedding photo galleries, chat on their message boards, explore real weddings from around the world and you can look for vendors in your area.

Wedding Mapper explains what they can do for you:

An innovative and unique planning tool for engaged couples:

• A wedding map makes it easy to communicate detailed information about your wedding and the local area to a large number of people.
• In addition to the key wedding locations, you can add restaurants, spas, parks, and your favorite local attractions to your wedding map.
• You can add photos and custom descriptions make your wedding map more personalized.

• You can easily share your wedding map with guests and your wedding vendors to ensure no one gets lost on the big day.
• You can store vendor contact information, hidden from guests, on your wedding map to keep everything in one place.
• It is easy to create a printed version of your wedding map. We have Professional and DIY options available.

A great resource for wedding guests and vendors:

• Wedding guests can become familiar with the local area and plan their weekend itinerary.
• Guests and wedding vendors can print custom driving directions to and from any location on the wedding map.
• A search tool makes it easy for guests to find accommodations, stores, etc. that may not be included on the wedding map.
• A list view of the wedding map gives guests an overview of where they need to be and when they need to be there.
  

DIY, with their help. Yes, there is a vendor out there who will support your DIY madness by actually helping you! See their DIY wedding map guides.

But their services don't stop there, hold on there's more! You can upgrade at a very reasonable $9.99. When you upgrade you get:

Custom URL
Make it easier for your guests to read and remember your wedding map url. Perfect for wedding invitations. (eg. http://hisandjhers.weddingmapper.com)

Add Links
Add additional links to your wedding map. (eg. to your wedding website or registry sites)

Upload Files
Upload any files you used to create your wedding invitations so that your guests can print them out if they lose their invitations.

Enhanced Code Snippet
Add your wedding map to your wedding website with a location list, all photos, and driving directions.


Too busy to make your own map? You can have Distinctive Directions create it for you! Take a look at their packages here.

I highly recommend Wedding Mapper & the services of Distinctive Directions

Happy mapping & planning!
~w.s.